Careers Lesson: Budget Analysis

How do you make sure that your income doesn't disappear before you have a chance to save it? Use a creative budgeting activity to teach learners in both special education and mainstream classes how to keep track of their expenditures and...

Budgeting, personal finance, and real life math skills are all addressed in this financial literacy lesson. Your class watches "Money Smarts" then participate in classroom activities that require them to make budgets based on the...

Learners investigate poverty using graphs. In this algebra lesson, students collect data on the effects of poverty and use different rules to analyze the data. They graph and use the trapezoid rule to interpret the data.

Making money is important to teenagers. It is up to your apprentices to determine how much two wage earners make with their after school jobs. Participants work with a table, an equation, and a graph and compare the two workers to see...

Investigate personal finances and budgeting with your middle schoolers. They calculate their cost of living given various costs of amenities. They use their calculations to determine if their expenses exceed their income, if so they must...

Students manage a budget.  In this managing a budget lesson, students are given a list of items they need to buy given a budget.  Students must buy 100 items from a list of 8 different items and stay under a budget of $8000.  Students...

Students create a budget using statistics. In this probability and statistics lesson, students define important vocabulary as it relates to a budget. They examine how to balance their income, versus their spending by using a spreadsheet.

Rows and rows of data may look overwhelming, but they are actually very helpful. A math lesson introduces matrices as a way to store and display data. Pupils take gathered data and organize it in a matrix, so they can easily access...

Where does all the money go? Given a living scenario, learners research jobs and costs for expenses. Class members use the information to create a monthly budget. They enter their information into a spreadsheet and use the spreadsheet to...

What a comprehensive, engaging set of activities for learners to gain a firm foundation of financial knowledge, practice budgeting for after they have completed their education, and consider the unexpected turns that life may throw their...